Japanese Buddhists to spot 100 years in Utah

Japanese Buddhism inwards in the
heartland of Mormonism above 100 years ago with emigrant employees who obtain
jobs with Utah mines, farms and bulldozes. And they carry their confidence and wish
for religious community with them.

By 1912, these Buddhists formed
their first worshippers in Ogden, known as the "Intermountain Buddhist
Church." A few years later on, it motivated to Salt Lake City.

Throughout the years, quite a lot of
further Japanese Buddhist churches spiral up crosswise the state, with relationship
flow away and elegant with the times. World War II, for instance, carries
Japanese Americans to the Topaz imprisonment camp in west-central Utah. Several
brought their family place of worship with them and continue after the war.

In current years, longtime associates
have been attached by American renovates. Now these Buddhists are rejoicing
their centenary on Sept. 15 with a daylong event, "Walking the Path of
Enlightenment."

The occasion will be detained at the Salt Palace conference Center in
downtown Salt Lake City from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.